Large Multi-lingual, Multi-level and Multi-genre Annotation Corpus

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Xuansong Li, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Lance Ramshaw, Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Kathryn Conger, Stephen Grimes, Stephanie Strassel

High accuracy for automated translation and information retrieval calls for linguistic annotations at various language levels.

Information Retrieval Retrieval +2

Uzbek-English and Turkish-English Morpheme Alignment Corpora

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Xuansong Li, Jennifer Tracey, Stephen Grimes, Stephanie Strassel

Morphologically-rich languages pose problems for machine translation (MT) systems, including word-alignment errors, data sparsity and multiple affixes.

Machine Translation Translation +1

Transliteration of Arabizi into Arabic Orthography: Developing a Parallel Annotated Arabizi-Arabic Script SMS/Chat Corpus

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Ann Bies, Zhiyi Song, Mohamed Maamouri, Stephen Grimes, Haejoong Lee, Jonathan Wright, Stephanie Strassel, Nizar Habash, Esk, Ramy er, Owen Rambow

Transliteration

Parallel Aligned Treebanks at LDC: New Challenges Interfacing Existing Infrastructures

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Xuansong Li, Stephanie Strassel, Stephen Grimes, Safa Ismael, Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Nianwen Xue

Parallel aligned treebanks (PAT) are linguistic corpora annotated with morphological and syntactic structures that are aligned at sentence as well as sub-sentence levels.

Machine Translation Sentence +2

Automatic word alignment tools to scale production of manually aligned parallel texts

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Stephen Grimes, Katherine Peterson, Xuansong Li

We have been creating large-scale manual word alignment corpora for Arabic-English and Chinese-English language pairs in genres such as newsire, broadcast news and conversation, and web blogs.

Machine Translation Semantic Role Labeling +2

Linguistic Resources for Handwriting Recognition and Translation Evaluation

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Zhiyi Song, Safa Ismael, Stephen Grimes, David Doermann, Stephanie Strassel

LDC has developed a stable pipeline and infrastructures for collecting and annotating handwriting linguistic resources to support the evaluation of MADCAT and OpenHaRT.

Document Classification Handwriting Recognition +1